Learn how to communicate visual concepts without drawing so much as a stick figure. Start saving time with Photoshop, which ships with hundreds of pre-drawn custom shapes.
Overview
Syllabus
How Not to Draw: Introduction
- Art without drawing
- Introducing the Shapes panel
- Using the Custom Shape tool
- Combining custom shapes
- Defining your own custom shape
- Loading several hundred custom shapes
- Copying and pasting a custom shape
- Troubleshooting a dimmed Paste command
- Pasting multiple custom shapes
- Using the Simplify command
- Advanced simplification
- Reshaping a custom path outline
- Preparing a photographic image
- Placing and tracing the image
- Expanding an image tracing
- Adding your custom shape to a piece of art
- Now away with you!
Taught by
Deke McClelland